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Member 446

Level 30.06

Mar 2006

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Sep 5, 2006, 03:35 PM
Local time: Sep 5, 2006, 09:35 PM
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I played through Planescape: Torment recently. Throughout the game, at any time you can talk with other party members about a variety of subjects. With the females you travel with, this extends to being able to proclaim your love for them, and, given your charisma is high enough, or whatever it's based off (I'm not sure exactly what functions it works on), you can work up to moving in on them and sharing a passionate kiss.
Now, why weren't those options available when following a dialogue with the male party members? It seems strange they'd allow the main character to choose to veer towards either good and evil, but limit a decision as regards his sexual preference.
Given that the game is in the true D&D mold, it purports to offer freedom of choice as a central defining gameplay element, but by exposing this one point, I believe to have sliced cleanly through that veneer of freedom, the true nature of the games restrictive linearity penetrating through the gash thus created like a piercing ray.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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